Benazir’s immovable properties: Court appoints administrators to look after them
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Greece to regularise 15,000 undocumented Bangladeshis
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
10 injured as BNP, police clash in Tangail
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Sohan captain for Zim T20Is
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Grain exports via black sea: Ukraine, Russia sign deal
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Lanka troops raid main protest camp
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
BSF seizes ‘record’ 41.49 kg gold near Benapole border
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
2 Covid patients die; positivity rate 8.36
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
25-yr-old tourist drowns in Nikli haor
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Schoolgirl raped in Manikganj
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Waiting for re-entry
Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrant workers employed by private companies in Qatar are facing difficulties returning to their workplaces as their online applications for re-entry permits, required due to the pandemic, have been rejected or are under process for an unduly long time.
26 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden no lover of UK’s ‘Trump clone’ Johnson
The political bromance between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump leaves Britain and its transatlantic “special relationship” exposed if Joe Biden wins next week, just as the country needs all the friends it can get.
26 October 2020, 18:00 PM
New fighting flares over Nagorno-Karabakh as Aliyev warns against Russian involvement
New fighting erupted between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces yesterday over the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh as both sides blamed each other for blocking a peaceful settlement to the conflict.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
More mass testing in China after 137 virus cases in Xinjiang
Chinese officials were racing yesterday to smother a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the country’s far northwest after 137 new infections were discovered.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Iraqis rally to relaunch year-old anti-government revolt
Thousands of Iraqis yesterday marked the first anniversary of a protest movement against the country’s stagnant political class with rallies at Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square and its high-security Green Zone.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
WHO reports 3rd straight daily record
The World Health Organization’s coronavirus dashboard yesterday showed a third consecutive daily record high in the number of new confirmed cases.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Father-in-law ‘has Qatar expat killed’
Police arrested a man on charges of killing his son-in-law with hired assassins in a bid to obtain Tk 1 crore from his bank accounts.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Shuvra Murder: Another held, confesses before judge
The Detective Branch of Mymensingh police on Saturday arrested Khairul, 35, of Kawrat Paschimpara in the district’s Gouripur upazila, for allegedly killing the upazila’s Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Dhaka seeks Tokyo’s help in Rohingya repatriation
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday sought Japan’s strong support in resolving the Rohingya crisis.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Man who made Samsung a global powerhouse dies
Lee Kun-hee, who built Samsung Electronics into a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died yesterday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Freedom Fighters’ Welfare Trust set up
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government has formed a trust with an initial fund of about Tk 4 crore in both cash and industrial units for the benefit of freedom fighters who had made supreme sacrifices with their blood,
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital Security Act: DU teacher sued over comments on religion
A professor at Dhaka University has been sued under the Digital Security Act for making “derogatory” comments on religion during a talk show on a private television channel.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Security officer gone rogue
More than a dozen complaints of assault, blackmail and extortion, and verbal abuse of female visitors have been submitted to Jahangirnagar University authorities against its chief security officer Sudipta Shaheen in the four years since he took office.
25 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Stuck Bangladeshis will get new entry permits to Qatar
Yousuf Mohamed Al Othman, foreign affairs minister of Qatar, has assured the Bangladesh envoy of issuing exceptional entry permits to stranded expatriate Bangladeshis in short time.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Issue: US comment on China’s role inappropriate
Beijing has sharply reacted to Washington’s recent remarks regarding China’s role in resolving the Rohingya crisis, China-India border tensions, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea and the Hong Kong national security legislation.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Exponential’ rise in cases globally
Grim data highlighted the struggle for authorities around the world to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control Saturday, as the US reported nearly 83,000 infections in a single day, France extended a curfew to two-thirds of citizens and Germany’s death toll passed 10,000.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Pakistan should seize historic opportunity: Mujib
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has told two Pakistani journalists who met him recently in Dhaka that Pakistan is hindering progress towards solution to the humanitarian as well as political problems in the sub-continent by deferring recognition of Bangladesh.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Pandemic halts bullfighting where animal rights activists couldn’t
In a matter of months, the novel coronavirus achieved something that animal rights activists failed to do in decades: put a halt to bullfighting in Peru.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump no fan of ‘Borat’ creator Sacha Baron Cohen
Donald Trump said Friday he has not been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen -- even before a clip from the British comedian’s new Borat movie forced the US president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani into an awkward explanation.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM
European buildings turn blue for UN’s 75th anniversary
More than 150 monuments and buildings across Europe were set to be lit up blue yesterday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
24 October 2020, 18:00 PM